Multiple action toy gun



April 17, 1956 J. A. SIGG 2,741,872

MULTIPLE ACTION TOY GUN Filed Sept. 4, 1953 IN VEN TOR.

BY 91W (2. 8.4

ATTORNEY PIC-3.3

MULTIPLE ACTION TOY GUN Joseph A. Sigg, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Application September 4, 1953, Serial No. 378,540

3 Claims. (Cl. 46-175) This invention relates to new and usefulimprovements in toy guns and it is among the objects thereof to providea toy gun commonly referred to as a space gun in which the ray ejectorbarrel is subject to rapid oscillatory movement in the gun stock bymeans of a cam actuated retractor mechanism.

It is a further object of the inventionto provide a toy gun with anactuator mechanism employing resilient means for effectin g oscillatorymovement of the ray barrel complemented by sound and which isresiliently mounted in the stock of the gun to assume a forward positionfrom which it is displaced by a cam actuated retractor mechanism.

These and other objects of the invention will become more apparent froma consideration of the accompanying drawing constituting a part hereofin which like reference characters designate like parts and in whichFigure 1 is a side elevational view of the gun stock or frame with thecover removed;

Figure 2 is a side elevational view of a ray gun with a ray ejectorbarrel, a barrel actuator, and a retractor mechanism assembled therein;and

Figure 3 is a side elevational view of the space gun with a portion ofthe grip cut away showing one position of the retractor mechanism inrelation to the barrel actuator.

With reference to the several figures of the drawing, the numeral 1designates the stock having a pistol grip 2 cut away at 3 for engagementby the fingers. The stock 1 is provided with a recess 4 for receivingthe ray ejector barrel 5, a portion of which extends into the recess 6of the stock. A rib 7 extend longitudinally of the stock which togetherwith the rib 8 forms a recess 9 for receiving a barrel actuator 10having an extension 11 for receiving a coil spring 12 that rests againsta shoulder 13 of the stock and against a shoulder 14 of the member 10 tobias the latter in a forward direction to abut against a shoulder 15 ofthe gun stock. A coil spring 16 is disposed between an offset portion 17of the barrel and an offset portion 18 of the actuator 10 whereby thebarrel 5 is normally biased against a shoulder 19 of the actuator. Bythis construction the barrel 5 is biased by the spring 12 of theactuator 1b in a forward direction and by the spring 15 in a rearwarddirection. Spring 12, being more powerful, dominates the position of thebarrel which is consequently normally in a forward direction with theprojection 18 abutting the shoulder 15. As shown in Figure l, the rib 7is depressed at 20 and the depressed portion of the rib is provided withgrooves 21 to form teeth 22. As shown in Figures 2 and 3, the actuator10 is provided with teeth 23 on a web portion that fits into thedepressed portion of the rib 7, the teeth 23 of the actuator being ofsaw tooth shape and the teeth 22 of the rib 7 being of pyramid shape.

A retractor consisting of a trigger member 24 fits into the recessedportion 25 of the stock and is provided with a pilot element 26 thatacts as a guide when the retractor is moved from left to right andreturned. The retractor 2,741,872 Patented Apt-.17, 1956 is recessed at27 to provide clearance for a pawl 28 that is mounted on the retractorat 29 in a manner to allow movement of the pawl on the curved surface 30of the retractor when it is depressed by the teeth 22 as will behereinafter explained. A coil spring 31 abuts the retractor on the rearend of the pawl 28 and abuts against the shoulder 32 of the stock tonormally bias the retractor to the forward position as shown in Figure2.

The operation of the above described gun mechanism is briefly asfollows. With the retractor in its released position, as shown in Figure2, the pawl 28 rests in the grooves 21 of the stock and the actuator 10is in its forward position, as is also the ray barrel 5. By effecting atrigger action on the retractor 24, the retractor actuator and raybarrel will simultaneously be displaced in a right hand direction, asviewed from the bottom of the drawing, while compressing coil springs 12and 31. Such rearward movement of the retractor will cause the pawl 28to follow the inclined face of the teeth 22, which may be termed a camface, until it reaches the peak of the tooth 22 as shown in Figure 3, atwhich time it will also have cleared the straight face of the saw tooth23 of the actuator 10 which is thereby released, which causes theactuator 10 to move forward or to the left, as viewed from the bottom ofthe drawing, a distance corresponding to the pitch or spacing of theteeth 23 and the ray barrel 5 will be thrust forward by action of thecoil spring 12 against the tension of the coil spring 16 which willeffect a rebound of the ray barrel to cause it to oscillate bycontinuing the retraction of the element. 24. The same movement of theactuator and ray barrel will be effected until the pawl has slippedbeyond the last tooth of the actuator in which position the triggerelement 24 has been displaced in the handle portion of the stock. Therebeing three teeth 23 in the actuator 10, there will be threeoscillations of the ray barrel 5 which gives the effect of a continuousoscillatory movement of the barrel during the retraction stroke of theretractor 24. The barrel 5 is subjected to an oscillatory movement andactuator 10 is released each time pawl 28 rides up a cam 22 anddisengages a tooth 23 of the actuator. By means of the spring mount, themoving parts impact the shoulders of the stock and the shoulders of theactuator and barrel in a manner to produce a staccato sound of somedegree to give a realistic shooting effect.

With reference to Figures 2 and 3, it will. be evident that when the gunis in the normal position of Figure 2 with the pawl 28 in groove 21, asingle retractor stroke of the trigger element 24 will cause the pawl toride over the two teeth 22 of the stock and the three teeth 23 of theactuator, the first release of the actuator as eifected by the cam faceof the teeth 22 being illustrated in Figure 3. It will be noted that thesaw shaped teeth of the actuator are of substantially the same depth asthe peaks 22 of the cam element so that as the pawl passes over thetooth 22 of the cam member it will release the tooth 23 of the actuator.Because of the retraction movement of the actuator, spring 12 will havebecome loaded so that when the tooth 23 is released by the pawl finger,the actuator will be shot forward with a snap that is imparted to theray barrel 5 by impact of the projection 19 against projection 17. Coilspring 16 will become momentarily compressed and will return the raybarrel 5 to its normal position.

It is evident from the foregoing description of this invention that toyguns made in accordance therewith pro vide a unique and desirable actionand sound to the great enjoyment of the youngsters using them.

Although one embodiment of the invention has been herein illustrated anddescribed, it will be evident to those skilled in the art that variousmodifications may be made in the details of construction withoutdeparting from the principles herein set forth.

I claim:

1. In a toy gun, a stock having a slideway,'a barrel mounted in saidslide having :1 depending shoulder portion, an actuator disposed beneathsaid barrel having an upstanding shoulder portion for abutting thedepending shoulder of the barrel and having a depending shoulderportion, a spring disposed between and engaging the shoulder portions ofsaid barrel and actuator and said actuator having a second springnormally biasing the same in a forward direction, a retractor mechanismbeneath said actuator normally biased by a spring in a forward directionand having a finger for engaging the depending shoulder portion of theactuator whereby upon movement of the retraction mechanism the springfinger will engage the actuator to retract the same, and earn means onthe stock for displacing the retractor mechanism finger to release theactuator.

2. In a toy gun, a stock having a plurality of parallel slideways for abarrel actuator and a retractor mechanism, respectively, said slidewayshaving shoulder portions constituting abutments for said actuator andretractor mechanism, a spring disposed between and engaging said barreland actuator to constitute the barrel a floating member, a second springbiasing the actuator to a forward position against one of said slidewayabutments,

and a retractor mechanism for said actuator, said stock having aserrated cam face and said actuator having teeth of substantially thedepth of the serrations of said cam face, a finger having an offsetportion extending into and abutting the face of, the serrated stockportion, and a spring normally biasing said finger against the serratedface and into engagement with a tooth of the actuator, said spring alsofunctioning to hold the retractor mechanism in a forward positionwhereby upon movement of the retractor mechansm in a rearward positionthe spring biased finger will ride over the serrated face of the stockand successively engage and release the teeth of the actuator mechanism.

3. A toy gun as set forth in claim 1 in which the retractor mechanismhas a depending trigger portion of a length to constitute a guide whenthe retractor mecl1- anisrn is actuated and said trigger having a pilotelement disposed in an opening of the stock to further guide the same.

References Cited in the tile of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS1,182,530 Doane May 9, 1916 1,259,463 DeFir Mar. 12, 1918 FOREIGNPATENTS 285,217 Germany June 24, 1915

